The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach

1917 German film
  • Emmi Elert (novel)
  • Carl Froelich
  • Robert Wiene
Produced byOskar MessterStarring
  • Henny Porten
  • Emil Jannings
  • Ludwig Trautmann
CinematographyKarl FreundMusic byGiuseppe Becce
Production
company
Messter Film
Release date
  • 2 February 1917 (1917-02-02)
CountryGermanyLanguages
  • Silent
  • German intertitles

The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach (German: Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach) is a 1917 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings and Ludwig Trautmann. The film was based on a novel by Emmi Elert.

Premise

A young teacher marries a factory owner, who turns out to be extremely brutal. She eventually leaves him for a kinder, gentler man.[1]

Cast

  • Henny Porten as Luise Rohrbach
  • Emil Jannings as Wilhelm Rohrbach
  • Ludwig Trautmann as Lawyer Rütling
  • Rudolf Biebrach as Schuldirektor
  • Frida Richard as Mutter des Ermordeten
  • Klara Berger

References

  1. ^ Jung & Schatzberg p.35-36

Bibliography

  • Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

External links

  • The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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